Pop Rocks Research Paper
How Pop Rocks Candy Work
Pop Rocks like other hard candy is made by mixing sugar, lactose, corn syrup, and artificial colors/flavors, and processed with carbon dioxide (the same gas that used in all carbonated beverages ).
The candy is made by mixing its ingredients and heating them until they melt into dust, then exposing the mixture to pressurized carbon dioxide gas at about 600 pounds per square inch, and allowing it to cool. The process causes tiny high pressure bubbles to be trapped inside the candy. When you put Pop Rocks in your mouth, your saliva dissolves the candy, releasing the carbon dioxide from the tiny atmosphere bubbles, resulting in a popping and sizzling sound and leaving a slight tingling sensation. If you examine …show more content…
Mitchell. He made the discovery accidentally, while trying to design an instant soft drink, when he put some sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide in his mouth. The candy was introduced to the market in 1975 at .15 cents per pack. The original flavors were Orange, Cherry and Grape. In 1983, General Foods stopped selling the candy because of the rumor of Pop Rocks being a dangerous product. Kraft Foods bought the rights to the product from General Foods in 1985. Since than candy is back to the market.
Over the years it was sold under different names, such as "Fizz Wiz" or "Peta Zeta", “Cosmic Candy” or “Space Dust”, "Action Candy", or "Crazy Dips", that was sold in crystal form with a boiled sugar lollipop, which was intended to be moistened with the mouth and dipped into the candy crystals. Today, mostly candy is sold under its original name “Pop Rocks”.
I mentioned that Pop Rocks are possible dangerous, let me explain what it is all about.
Are Pop Rocks …show more content…
The TV show “MythBusters” performed the same test inside a pig's stomach, and concluded that an explosion was impossible while eating pounds of the material.
The rumor, in part, caused by the false assumption that Pop Rocks contain an acid/base mixture (such as baking soda and vinegar) which produces large volumes of gas when mixed through chewing and saliva.
The amount of carbon dioxide released by a packet of Pop Rocks is about 1/10th of what you would get in a mouthful of cola. While, the popping of the bubbles is dramatic, you won't shoot candy into your lungs or chip a tooth or anything.
In the end, Pop Rocks are a very cool candy that pop when you put them in your mouth. They make a sizzling sound as they dissolve, the tiny explosions feel interesting, plus (in my opinion) they taste good. So it is a fun tasty product and as we all have seen it is completely safe.
Pop Rocks are a hard candy that has been gasified with carbon dioxide .
Though Pop Rocks had been thoroughly tested and found innocuous, the exploding candy still startled residents in Seattle. The Food and Drug Administration arranged a telephone hotline to assure anxious parents that the popping candy would not cause children to choke. Mixing the candy with carbonated drinks would cause the stomach to explode, was the popular
Pop Rocks like other hard candy is made by mixing sugar, lactose, corn syrup, and artificial colors/flavors, and processed with carbon dioxide (the same gas that used in all carbonated beverages ).
The candy is made by mixing its ingredients and heating them until they melt into dust, then exposing the mixture to pressurized carbon dioxide gas at about 600 pounds per square inch, and allowing it to cool. The process causes tiny high pressure bubbles to be trapped inside the candy. When you put Pop Rocks in your mouth, your saliva dissolves the candy, releasing the carbon dioxide from the tiny atmosphere bubbles, resulting in a popping and sizzling sound and leaving a slight tingling sensation. If you examine …show more content…
Mitchell. He made the discovery accidentally, while trying to design an instant soft drink, when he put some sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide in his mouth. The candy was introduced to the market in 1975 at .15 cents per pack. The original flavors were Orange, Cherry and Grape. In 1983, General Foods stopped selling the candy because of the rumor of Pop Rocks being a dangerous product. Kraft Foods bought the rights to the product from General Foods in 1985. Since than candy is back to the market.
Over the years it was sold under different names, such as "Fizz Wiz" or "Peta Zeta", “Cosmic Candy” or “Space Dust”, "Action Candy", or "Crazy Dips", that was sold in crystal form with a boiled sugar lollipop, which was intended to be moistened with the mouth and dipped into the candy crystals. Today, mostly candy is sold under its original name “Pop Rocks”.
I mentioned that Pop Rocks are possible dangerous, let me explain what it is all about.
Are Pop Rocks …show more content…
The TV show “MythBusters” performed the same test inside a pig's stomach, and concluded that an explosion was impossible while eating pounds of the material.
The rumor, in part, caused by the false assumption that Pop Rocks contain an acid/base mixture (such as baking soda and vinegar) which produces large volumes of gas when mixed through chewing and saliva.
The amount of carbon dioxide released by a packet of Pop Rocks is about 1/10th of what you would get in a mouthful of cola. While, the popping of the bubbles is dramatic, you won't shoot candy into your lungs or chip a tooth or anything.
In the end, Pop Rocks are a very cool candy that pop when you put them in your mouth. They make a sizzling sound as they dissolve, the tiny explosions feel interesting, plus (in my opinion) they taste good. So it is a fun tasty product and as we all have seen it is completely safe.
Pop Rocks are a hard candy that has been gasified with carbon dioxide .
Though Pop Rocks had been thoroughly tested and found innocuous, the exploding candy still startled residents in Seattle. The Food and Drug Administration arranged a telephone hotline to assure anxious parents that the popping candy would not cause children to choke. Mixing the candy with carbonated drinks would cause the stomach to explode, was the popular